I'm a Stranger Here Myself (CD)

Composers Kurt Weill and Hanns Eisler had great success with their songs, creating an unmistakable style that has remained unique with its mixture of popular music, supreme musical sophistication and political claims. Salome Kammer is a versatile artists and an ideal advocate of this music.

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Reviews:

"There's some historical logic in yoking Kurt Weill and Hanns Eisler together – both were active in Berlin from the late 1920s, until forced to leave by the Nazis, and both worked with Bertolt Brecht – but musically they were very different...Kammer is adroit at bridging both musical worlds; she's a superb singing actress, with the required range and technique." - The Guardian

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Tracklisting:

Eisler: An den kleinen Radioapparat

Eisler: Der Kirschdieb

Eisler: Der Pflaumenbaum

Eisler: Der Pflaumenbaum (first version)

Eisler: Die Flucht

Eisler: Die Haltbare Graugans

Eisler: Die haltbare Graugans (No. 3 from Neue Lieder)

Eisler: Die Heimkehr

Eisler: Die Landschaft des Exils

Eisler: Hollywood Liederbuch

Eisler: Hotelzimmer 1942

Eisler: Im Blumengarten

Eisler: Im Blumengarten (No. 1 from Neue Lieder)

Eisler: L'automne prussienne (No. 2 from Neue Lieder)

Eisler: Spruch 1939

Eisler: Über den Selbstmord

Eisler: Und es sind die finstern Zeiten

Eisler: Und Ich Werde Nicht Mehr Sehen

Eisler: Vom Sprengen des Gartens

Spring: Brecht-Triptychon

Weill, K: Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny

Weill, K: Ballad of the Drowned Girl (from Berlin Requiem)

Weill, K: Barbara Song (from The Threepenny Opera)

Weill, K: Bilbao Song (from Happy End)

Weill, K: Das Lied von der harten Nuss (from Happy End)

Weill, K: Denn wie man sich bettet (from Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny)